Authors wishing to submit papers for inclusion in a Special Session must follow the IEEE CEC 2025 Submission Guidelines for preparing and submitting their papers. To make sure the papers will be included in the Special Session, please make sure you select the desired Special Session name in the Main Research topic. Special Session papers will be reviewed as other regular conference papers and those accepted will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore.
1. Learning-aided Evolutionary Computation: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications
Organizers:
Jian-Yu Li, Xin-Xin Xu, Yi Jiang, Zhi-Hui Zhan
Email: jianyulics@foxmail.com
2. Neural Architecture Search: A Deep Evolutionary Optimization Perspective
Organizers:
Yi Jiang, Nan Li, Jian-Yu Li, Zhi-Hui Zhan
Email: vladimir_jiangyi@qq.com
3. Learning Guided Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms with Applications
Organizers:
Kaizhou Gao, Yaping Fu, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan
Email: kzgao@must.edu.mo
4. Evolutionary Computation for Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization
Organizers:
Yi Mei, Su Nguyen, Gang (Aaron) Chen, Fangfang Zhang
Email: yi.mei@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
5. Evolutionary Deep Learning and Applications
Organizers:
Yanan Sun, Bing Xue, Chuan-Kang Ting, Mengjie Zhang
Email: ysun@scu.edu.cn
6. Evolutionary Computation for Symbolic Regression and Applications
Organizers:
Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang
Email: qi.chen@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
7. Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection, Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction
Organizers:
Bach (Hoai) Nguyen, Ruwang Jiao, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang
Email: bach.nguyen@vuw.ac.nz
8. Application of Quantum Technologies to Industrial and Real-World use cases (Q4-RW)
Organizers:
Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Izaskun Oregi
Email: eneko.osaba@tecnalia.com
9. Multimodal Data-Driven Optimization
Organizers:
Xueming Yan, Qiqi Liu, Lifang He, Yaochu Jin
Email: yanxm@gdufs.edu.cn
10. Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing (ECVIP)
Organizers:
Harith Al-Sahaf, Ying Bi, Pablo Mesejo
Email: yingbi@zzu.edu.cn
11. Evolutionary Learning and Learning to Optimize
Organizers:
Peng Yang, Josu Ceberio, Chao Qian
Email: yangp@sustech.edu.cn
12. Computational Intelligence for Music, Art, and Creativity
Organizers:
Chuan-Kang Ting, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Yu-Wei Wen, Rolando Miragaia
Email: ckting@cs.nthu.edu.tw
13. Computational Intelligence with Human Factors
Organizers:
Yan Pei, Qing Liu, Kei Ohnishi
Email: peiyan@u-aizu.ac.jp
Organizers:
Diego Oliva, Mario A. Navarro, Absalom El-Shamir Ezugwu, Mohammed El-Abd
Email: diego.oliva@academicos.udg.mx
15. Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems
Organizers:
Chaoli Sun, Jonathan Fieldsend, Yew-Soon Ong
Email: chaoli.sun@outlook.com
16. Evolutionary Computation in Multidisciplinary Applications for Sustainable Future (ECMASF)
Organizers:
Yi Chen, Dehong Huo, Xiangrong Su
Email: leo.chen.yi@live.co.uk
17. Advances in Decomposition-based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (ADEMO)
Organizers:
Saúl Zapotecas-Martínez, Bilel Derbel, Ke Li, Qingfu Zhang
Email: szapotecas@inaoe.mx
18. Evolutionary Transfer Learning and Transfer Optimisation
Organizers:
Bing Xue, Liang Feng, Yew Soon Ong, Mengjie Zhang
Email: bing.xue@vuw.ac.nz
Organizers:
Jun Yu, Rui Zhong, Chao Zhang
Email: yujun@ie.niigata-u.ac.jp
20. Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE)
Organizers:
Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang
Email: changhe.lw@gmail.com
21. Quality Indicators in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Practice
Organizers:
Jes´us Guillermo Falc´on-Cardona, Julio Antonio Ju´arez Jim´enez
Email: jfalcon@tec.mx
22. Design of General Purpose Artificial Intelligent Systems (GPAIS)
Organizers:
Isaac Triguero, Daniel Molina, Bing Xue, Ferrante Neri
Email: triguero@decsai.ugr.es
23. Bio-inspired Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation for Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Organizers:
Tingjun Lei, Chaomin Luo, Gene Eu Jan, Zhuming Bi
Email: chaomin.luo@ece.msstate.edu
Organizers:
Liang Feng, Jinghui Zhong, Kai Qin
Email: liangf@cqu.edu.cn
25. Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization
Organizers:
Rui Wang, Wenhua Li, Hisao Ishibuch
Email: liwenhua1030@aliyun.com
26. Competitions on Numerical Optimization
Organizers:
Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Kenneth V. Price, Jing Liang, Caitong Yue
Email: p.n.suganthan@qu.edu.qa
Link: https://github.com/P-N-Suganthan/2025-CEC
27. Large Language Model-Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Optimization
Organizers:
Shulei Liu, Fei Liu, Qingfu Zhang
Email: liushulei@xidian.edu.cn
28. Machine Learning Multiobjective Optimization
Organizers:
Carlos A. Coello Coello, Amir Nakib, Kaoutar SENHAJI
Email: kaoutar.senhaji@u-pec.fr
29. Physics-Informed Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
Organizers:
Yew-Soon Ong, Jiao Liu, Chinchun Ooi, Abhishek Gupta, Stefan Menzel, Kalyanmoy Deb
Email: ASYSOng@ntu.edu.sg
30. Partitioning, Clustering, and Decomposition in Evolutionary Computation
Organizers:
Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Diego Oliva, Ripon K. Chakrabortty
Email: jalalmousavirad@gmail.com
31. Evolutionary Computation for Service and Cloud Computing
Organizers:
Hui Ma, Gang (Aaron) Chen, Yi Mei
Email: hma@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
32. Quantum Artificial Intelligence
Organizers:
Zakaria Abdelmoiz DAHI, Gabriel Luque, Francisco Chicano
Email: zadahi@uma.es
33. Integrating Machine Learning Methods into Evolutionary Optimization
Organizers:
Lhassane Idoumghar, Amir H. Gandomi, Mahmoud Golabi, Abdennour Azerine
Email: lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr
34. Automating Computational Intelligence Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Real-World Applications
Organizers:
Anja Jankovic, Jorge Cruz, Tome Eftimov, Nelishia Pillay
Email: jorge.cruz@tec.mx
35. EMO-AutoML: Evolutionary Multi-Objective Automated Machine Learning
Organizers:
Zhongyi Hu, Mustafa Misir, Yi Mei
Email: mustafa.misir@dukekunshan.edu.cn
36. Advanced Optimization under Uncertainty
Organizers:
Aneta Neumann, Yichang Gao
Email: aneta.neumann@adelaide.edu.au
37. Evolutionary Optimization for Complex Engineering Challenges
Organizers:
Aneta Neumann, Meng Xu
Email: aneta.neumann@adelaide.edu.au
38. Multimodal Multiobjective Optimization: Real-world Applications and Methods
Organizers:
Jing Liang, Caitong Yue, Kunjie Yu, Boyang Qu, Ying Bi
Email: yuecaitong@zzu.edu.cn
Organizers:
Yaqing Hou, Zexuan Zhu, Ferrante Neri, Chuan-Kang Ting, Maoguo Gong
Email: houyq@dlut.edu.cn
40. Evolutionary Computation for Safety: Data, Methods and Applications
Organizers:
Jia Guo, Jiacheng Li, Yuji Sato, Zhiwei Ye
Email: guojia314@gmail.com
41. Computational Intelligence for Control and Optimization of Complex Energy Systems
Organizers:
João Soares, Fernando Lezama, Jose Almeida, Oscar Danilo Giraldo, Ali Bassam, Zita Vale
Email: jan@isep.ipp.pt
Link： https://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/ERM-competitions/ss2025/
42. Nature-inspired Computing in Intelligent Network Systems
Organizers:
Yu-Wei Wen, Rung-Tzuo Liaw, Chuan-Kang Ting
Email: ywwen@nuu.edu.tw
43. Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry
Organizers:
Ye Tian, Cheng He, Zhichao Lu, Rong Qu, Yaochu Jin
Email: field910921@gmail.com
44. Evolutionary Large-scale multi-objective optimization
Organizers:
Yajie Zhang, Shangshang Yang, Ye Tian, Ian Kropp, Xingyi Zhang, Yaochu Jin
Email: yjzhang17719490727@163.com
45. Evolutionary Intelligent decision-making method and application
Organizers:
Chang Liu, Bing Yan, Rui Wang, Fengzhen Tang, Yaochu Jin
Email: changl@sia.cn
